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  RE: https://f.duriansoftware.com/@joe/117361756138212705 Fun fact: visual studio's intellisense uses the EDG front end. This may be a little surprising, because you'd think that they could have simply used MSVC's front end. They had the MSVC source code, and its authors, and everything. But no; it was apparently easier for them to use EDG's. Also: if you've ever read any part of the C or C++ standards, you'll find the corresponding parts of the EDG src very very very ve...

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  "we can't put that horse back in the barn" what are you talking about. horses aren't invincible.

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  a nice unexpected benefit of godbolt.org is that it's making me aware of more system languages. today, i learned about the C3 language via the godbolt language pull-down menu. for prototyping purposes (not for production, which requires memory safety), C3 seemed to check a lot of boxes. but then i got to the part where it milkshake-ducks itself: https://c3-lang.org/faq/rejected-ideas/#unicode-identifiers they might as well have asked, "why would anyone think in their native language...

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  oh hey, it's time for this meme again:

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  so i guess everyone is going to have to figure out a retaliation strategy for "intelligent glasses". like, what's the proportionate response to a persistent, passive privacy violation?

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  @nolan@toot.cafe 1) there's no way that the people using the mockup-generating machines actually understand their mockup codebases to anywhere near the degree as people who actually spent time thinking about the problems and their solutions. The mockups are therefore unmaintainable. 2) if we could ban asbestos, then we can ban these horrible destructive machines. We can organize, and we can have them all dismantled, and their DRAM & CPUs can be put to less-destructive use.

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  saw a post asking about the first 28 seconds of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRC4l4adlp0 ...basically asking, "How did they do that? Did they digitally remove Jim Henson from that shot?" And the first reply post basically started, "given that it was filmed in 1978, it's *unlikely* [emphasis mine] that they did that digitally", and... i'm getting the impression that modern public school history departments aren't doing their jo...

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  periodic reminder that creationists don't know what darwinian evolution is. if given a pop quiz on the basic concepts, they would not be able to earn a passing grade.

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  time is an illusion. st_mtime, doubly so.

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  the most important thing to remember about political violence is that it is completely unacceptable unless you commit it by giving an order to the united states military.

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  https://bsky.app/profile/accentedcinema.bsky.social/post/3mjpol5uafk2o

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116427051578430755 just realized another reason why this kind of slopgen hurts: it arrives at the end of a decade-ish period when we saw dramatic advances in (non-LLM) tech that legitimately enabled us to build a _correct_ understanding of code so much faster than before: godbolt.org; LSP mouse-hover & navigation; tree-sitter... we have an embarrassment of riches that coders in the 1980's would have killed for. and now people want to just.....

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  We need a federal court to convict donald trump of crimes against humanity, and to issue the death penalty. And we need more people to say this out loud.

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  we have defer at home: #define GLUE_(a, b) a##b #define GLUE(a, b) GLUE_(a, b) template<typename Closure> struct DeferStruct { Closure c; DeferStruct(Closure &&c) : c(std::move(c)) {} ~DeferStruct() { c(); } }; #define defer [[gnu::nodebug]] DeferStruct GLUE(_defer_stmt_, __COUNTER__)= [&]

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  getting the sense that, if andy weir had been a fiftysomething in 1942, he would have criticized _casablanca_ for being "political", or "preachy", or "hitting you over the head with ~~the message~~"

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  ICE just announced the phone number for their tip line: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcv2aef2oo2q As someone in the replies said: > Do not call them with fake tips. That would be very naughty indeed and only waste their valuable time. That's right. And definitely don't call from a line other than your personal phone. They may want to follow up! Definitely make sure that all of your complaints are 100% legit and make the *best* and *shortest* and **most efficient** po...